The six words every teacher stresses about all summer long are "This year, your classroom budget is..." Consumable supplies are beginning to take up most of that budget, and the students are the ones who suffer as a result. Music classrooms have the tiniest budgets of all, but we need pencils, too!
Our students are really special kids who love to learn, but need the resources to do so.
They are primarily lower income African American children who live in the apartments and neighborhoods surrounding the school. They work hard in school and love to laugh and make music together. When I began working here, just a couple of years ago, supplies were extremely limited, because there was no music room, and the music teacher went room to room on a rolling cart. The principal made sure there was a music room for us, and now, I hope to build it into the kind of place where real learning happens and beautiful music is made.
My Project
Music is a language all its own. It has its own special symbols, notes and characters that take time, patience and materials to learn. We already have individual white boards for the students in our class, but unfortunately, our markers have all dried up from drawing thousands of staffs and treble clefs on them! New dry erase markers and erasers will help the students learn to draw musical symbols on their own. The theory book can be copied and then those worksheets can be put into dry erase pockets, so that every student in the school can do those sheets without wasting tons of paper. The composer posters will inspire the older students as they put their new pencils to the manuscript paper to compose music of their own.
Your donation will foster creativity in our students to write music, while helping them learn a whole new language of musical notation.
Who knows? These few supplies could inspire the composer of a future famous movie score or commercial jingle, the singer of a hit song, a music producer or engineer. Or most importantly, they could make a kid's tough day at school, a little more musical.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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